skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. There isn't any one entity that is short 140% of the GME float.
2. If a stock shouldn't be allowed to be sold short past 100% then we should outlaw subletting apartments.

Why shouldn't someone be allowed to pay to borrow something, and then rent it out? How is that manipulative in and of itself?
Don't stop. I am 100% behind you guys.
I added the patch for the `--desktop-file-name` flag. It's useful for profile management on Linux. I wrote up a comparison of a couple profile managers for Qutebrowser here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/l6zj0z/compari...
It can't go tits up!
> one of the central conceits of capitalism is wrong (i.e. that the stock market isn't a good arbiter of the value of companies)

The "central conceit" is not that the market is a "good arbiter" of the value of a company. Just that it's the least bad one.

The central conceit of every alternative to capitalism is that there's such a thing as a singular, coherent definition of "the value of a company" and that it's consistently, accurately measurable by some central authority.
Thank you! That is a great answer.
Yeah but it's a potentially perpetual ongoing per-unit cost that the manufacturers will incur for something they sell for a one-time payment. At some point it has to become unprofitable.

There are connected cars but iirc you have to buy a subscription or supply your own sim card to use the online features.
Yes, when SEC asks for something it's considered governmental intervention even though they technically don't force it.
just had a 10 minutes fun with it while looking for svelte information on HN, and here is what I end up with: https://patch.cab/avobxvgk
I like to write a one pager for anything I have to grok in a serious way. Key places the code visits are summarized, I use indenting to show branching. White board helps too. Just the act of doing this is more helpful than any artifacts it produces. They decay rapidly.
Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations
GME is doomed...

... when options expire Friday.
If it were a case of their software functioning as intended, it would be malpractice to not come out and say that. Right now it looks like they're deliberately manipulating the market to the detriment of their customers. That makes for a humongous blow to trust in their platform and can lose them many, many customers.
It's all connected. Any little hiccup can trigger a chain reaction of margin calls, or worse. Remember the CDO debacle from 2008.

When Goldman, JP Morgan, et al finally take the hit, we all know that DC will rush to their aid. It has happened before, and it will happen again.

Nobody is buying these worn-out wall street apologetics.
Ask HN: Elm, PureScript, or ReasonML for a FP course?
Beginning this March, I'll lead a new high-school functional programming course, consisting mostly of writing simple 2D games. I can't decide which of these three languages would be best suited for it. Does anybody have experience with any of them? What did you like? What did you not? What should I use?

The students are a bunch of talented high-schoolers, however they only picked up programming this September. That means good tooling and a friendly compiler are paramount, because they'll often be leaning on both.

I don't have experience with any of the languages, but I write Haskell and Typescript for living, so I should be able pick these up rather quickly. Because I know Haskell so well, I lean towards PureScript, but I don't want to base my decision only on this.
And in the shadows, Blackrock and the other institutional investors lending the stock in the first place probably just roll in money from the current situation.

And imho they have to initiate the "real squeeze" by wanting their stocks back. But I think they like the current situation, high enough to make the short sellers bleed, but not high enough to knock them over fully, so they can still merrily sell to them (OTC) and Jane Doe, while happily pocketing some sociopaths money for extending the lease on their remaining shares... They don't profit at all from the WSB-proposed rockt-squeeze, where the stock goes up, then trading is stopped for everyone and they can not liquidate everything and they also won't get everything back, when their borrowers default. But this is heaven for them: who could have expected that investing in a company slowly sliding to bankruptcy could be so profitable!
It's funny watching the know it alls here on HN bang their heads against the wall trying to explain WSB. In the last couple days I've seen I've seen everything from "lack of sex" to class warfare. It's really not that complicated: it's a short squeeze that became something of a single-minded flash mob to discourage weak-hands from selling before the squeeze is complete. That's it. The politics and everything else is nonsense.
Robinhood sells their order flow to Citadel.

Citadel is financing Melvin Capital's GME short. The financing terms are private but whether they just lent them funds to cover the margin calls or actually hold their short positions until the storm passes for a fee, it is absolutely in their interest to prevent GME from continuing to skyrocket. Drawing a collusion between Citadel and RH isn't that far-fetched but I obviously have no insider knowledge of this.

Most brokerages sell their order flow and Citadel trades 25% of the equities market in the US, from memory. Schwab, which also sells order flow to Citadel, requires 200% margin to go long GME which makes no sense since at most, you can lose 100% of your bet.

This is not what free markets are supposed to be like.
The python and R distribution is much better known than the GUI Linux installer.
>> Reminded me of this HN comment (disclosure: not mine) which IMO nails it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25800104

Ya, that's a pretty good list.

> ...not too much catering to “super stars”. 1-2 heros does not a team make, the senior people make it their job to lift everyone up. The team doesn’t obsess over their high performers.

Amen.

A team is only as fast as its slower member.

h/t The Goal, theory of constraints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
We used to buy them from a neighbor every week back in Texas. It was traditional for the older Mexican ladies to get together and make them on the weekends. Making tamales is quite a production, so you have to make a ton in one day and sell them over the week.
> If HN is overrepresented by vanguards of decentralization and free speech, why are a lot of us here on HN instead of running USENET nodes and posting to a newsgroup such as "comp.programming.hackernews" to avoid being moderated by dang?

Because the point isn't to have no moderation, it's for the power of "moderation" not to be vested in a small number of oligarchs pressured by angry mobs spurred on by media companies with bad incentives to want to damage their political opponents and market competitors.

Also notice that you're using a web page delivered via HTTP over TCP/IP over Ethernet, resolved via DNS, secured via TLS etc. These are all standard protocols. But Facebook isn't one and that's at the root of the problem.

> If most of HN knows how to set up git and stand up a web server, why do most of use Github instead of running Gitlab on a home pc/laptop/RaspberryPi or rent a Digital Ocean vps?

The network effect.

> It's because "free & open protocols" weren't really the issue!

It's because "free & open protocols" are an important thing but not the only thing, and their importance relative to other things was until recently not under the spotlight.
It is not hard to find low-liquidity symbols, though typically these are smaller companies or unusual products of some sort. I have seen brokerages declare some symbols to be restricted in some way (higher margin requirements, or not eligible for margin at all) because of poor liquidity. Market makers do not always swoop in to provide liquidity and may not be willing or able to trade large enough numbers of shares to satisfy investors during extreme circumstances (e.g. during a crash or a short squeeze).
In the section before there is agreement with your comment:

> Can we write and execute all our code in a Jupyter Notebook? Yes! Should we? Probably not. However, I enjoy the workflow, and making this an enjoyable process is important to me.
> Which means that the money the hedge funds lost is redistributed among all who held the stock.

No, the hedge funds are being forced to buy, so their money will be redistributed to whoever sells them the stock. That won't be WSB if they keep buying,
The lesson from Trump is that blindly going against the incumbent may simply replace them with somebody less competent and more corrupt.
You start here,

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xerox

And then go over to symbolics, Borland, whatever.
> ...not too much catering to “super stars”. 1-2 heros does not a team make, the senior people make it their job to lift everyone up. The team doesn’t obsess over their high performers.

Amen.

A team is only as fast as its slower member.

h/t The Goal, theory of constraints

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
And the thing is that for the last four years the mainstream media kept saying the market was going to crash on Trump, and it actually does it the first week into Biden's term.
Oh wow. I've always thought IB to be the most "bare metal" trading platform available to regular people. If they're denying buy orders, then where does a plebe go to get direct access to the market?
>So who's the CEO of this “antifa”?

Follow the money stream.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/george-soros-...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/06/the-george-soro...
So RobinHood is stealing information from the poor to give to the rich? To make them richer? Surely I am not the first to notice this irony.
I looked at my margin document, other than Federal Reserve requirements and account restriction, there is no provision stating they can block a specific eligible stock as long as I meet their margin requirement.
I think that was another incident from 2018? https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/f...
That is an absurd take. For all fields, most people are on the outside. Historical work for most people - produced by those on the outside - is how our society and culture understands itself.

I recently finished an excellent one volume history of the Civil War, "Battle Cry of Freedom." It was written by James McPherson, a historian. This book has informed my understanding of not just the Civil War, but also the lead up to it. I believe this context is essential for understanding where we are now.
Aside from the last two points, aren't a lot of these the result of progressing the state of the art? To get a fast SOC that has all the gizmos and gadgets and fits in a small, waterproof container you have to make some unsavory design decisions.
Yeah, before today I'd have likely dismissed such comments as "conspiracy theory" but, RobinHood literally disabled the ability to buy, or even search for these stocks on their platform.
I'm pretty stupid on this, but how does one short for +100% is that not naked shoring ?
>Was there any reason to use toys instead of just chewing-gum?

Not really, except it lasts longer and I dislike the taste of chewing gum. Mastic gum works well, too.
If you ever need to read something in one of Knuth's books, that's useful history for you.

I know because I was looking how to efficiently generate power sets and eventually the only good answer was in TAoCP!!!

So the answer is: history, the kind of history full of technical details that Knuth argues for, is extremely useful for our profession.

It is the empty, pop history, made without algorithm descriptions and full of only anecdotes what you are thinking about? Knuth argues against that!
Stack Overflow: Here's what happened when we were hacked back in 2019
I mean it could be not "it" but the "it" that triggers this build-up of tension. People are fed up (and rightly so) of the elite gaming the system.

KYC is fine if you are a multi-millionaire. You just delegate your lawyers and army of accountants to do it. But if you are a small man/company, it's a headache that can drive you out of business.

This financial restrictions has to be stopped. Financial freedom is more important than Freedom of expression.
Yes, it's different insofar as the money you're losing in this protest is going directly into the pockets of the group of people you're protesting against. Very illogical way to protest.
Ironic to read this comment in an article of someone reading a web page on a PSP.
The majority of all e-brokers have made the same choice. This isn’t about Robinhood being for dummies or selling your data or any of that.
interactive brokers is a paid service and they actually pretend they are different by not sharing their flow with Citadel etc... even they blocked trades on options on these symbols.
> They had it at Xerox PARC, but Steve Jobs chose not to take that part.

At least they created Object Pascal and did two OSes with it, and contributed later on to the C++ industry adoption, instead of being yet another C powerhouse cloning UNIX.
Actually, I never defined the common person. Because I felt it's pretty obvious.

The common person is the majority of Americans who live paycheck-to-paycheck and don't invest in the market.

Those who don't participate will be negatively impacted if this causes another recession, which is likely as investors get spooked by another bubble burst. Which means standard of living, job benefits, and salaries will continue to stagnate.

This also ignores the fact that we've moved from guaranteed pensions to 401ks, which are heavily dependent on hedge funds. If hedge funds lose their shirts, they'll get a bailout from the government because we didn't learn our lesson about too big to fail last time. Which will mean government austerity in other areas, typically starting in social welfare programs.
Short interest is reported daily. You don't have to do much guess work to know who is short, in general. And funds have to report beneficial ownership above certain thresholds, so highly concentrated "tactical" managers are susceptible to news or sentiment driven herd events involving stocks in which they have large positions.
HFT shops are not hedge funds.

They don't need much capital, and I'd say that many have no outside investors. So, their trading PnL minus cost of running the operation is the net profit.

On the other hand, the trading PnL will typically be a tiny part of their total trading volume (maybe a few bp).
I sure hope pension funds are not investing in hedge funds focused on shorting stocks.
The UX for Telegram is spot on for me.
A mechanical release would be good, yes, and I agree that modern cars are too obsessed with drive-by-wire when it comes to safety features like doors and pedals. But that lever wouldn't have helped in this case.

I infer that the driver was unconscious and bystanders/first responders outside the car were unable to open the doors. There are no claims that the internal handles were defective, they only complain that the futuristic, flush external door handles that are intended to detect key presence plus an approaching hand and extend when you reach for them were inoperable. However, there are no details in the article on whether the doors were even unlocked or airbags deployed. Regulations require that the doors unlock after the airbag deploys, most manufacturers also turn off the ignition and fuel pump (in an internal-combustion vehicle); I expect that this routine would include extending the handles in a Tesla. However, Tesla handles getting stuck is a pretty common problem, it seems the standard response is to pry them open with a credit card or similar object. And typically it's the electric actuator and slide mechanism that jams, so other doors would have worked, in this case it sounds like the power to the door actuators was gone due to the crash so no door would open.

But car doors getting crushed in and becoming inoperable is a common problem, and the standard solution is a glass breaking tool or other heavy/sharp object. Had the door latches been crushed and stuck closed in the attorney's recommended "Chevy pickup", regardless of whether the handles were accessible, the police officer who responded first would have been expected to break a window. It sounds like the first responder got stuck in the problem-solving process when their plan to open the doors using the handles didn't work and they didn't know what to do. That's easy to identify from my armchair, but I'm sure it would be different when you've got an unconscious guy in a smoking Tesla in front of you, and certainly is no good resolution for the widow.
It's hard to know exactly what the repercussions were, but in my experience a lot of stocks were down yesterday, including some FAANG's and the like down 5-10%. Those numbers aren't likely to be permanent, so anyone who wanted to buy anyways got a 5-10% discount.
Its rather simple really.

Question: Are you willing to post the entire employment contract unredacted on the internet (or email it to some John Doe you don't know) ?

Yes ? Fine. Maybe you might get some reasonable ideas.

No ? Well, go see a lawyer. Since anyone offering you advice without sight of the unredacted document is simply talking out of their backside and taking guesses in the dark.
I think you may be surprised by how much those who would consider themselves antifa hate the Democrats
> the videos are attracting a large quantity of spam dislikes

Prior to the bulk-removal the dislikes are tracking the views; the dislike growth curve is a close function of the view count curve. That is unlikely to happen if the dislikes are bulk spam.

We'll be told it's 'spam' or 'bots', and Youtube will rely on this as the plausible explanation should they bother to address it at all, but the inconvenient truth is that the most likely explanation for the dislikes is viewers. Otherwise one must posit a sophisticated spammer that is carefully tailoring their dislikes to camouflage their activity.

I suspect the only meaningful response we'll get is a throttling of the API used to do the analysis.
Yes, because here they not only lose money, but also all the money they lose is gained by the exact thing they protest against. It’s as if they went to protest Amazon by working at their warehouse for free.
Also potentially for violating their duties as a broker. How the various duties to execute trades intersect with duties to protect their clients is going to be an interesting court case to follow. If it turns out the gamma squeeze or short squeeze works, RH clients could easily claim massive monetary losses.
Sure, because taking out the digital system to repair/upgrade it (unless your tap is somehow wireless too) is totally different from taking out these damaged/upgradeable mechanical mechanisms.
I was reading last night a few posts saying they have to cover their shorts by Friday or Monday. So will be interesting to see the fallout.
Last I checked steam/etc doesn't allow one to resell their games. So they do provide a convenient service in that regard.
It's not ideal, but the support for pull request templates is there, such that you can pre-fill the pull request with some text like "THIS WONT DO ANYTHING, PULL REQUESTS ARE AUTO DELETED"

https://docs.github.com/en/github/building-a-strong-communit...
Yeah, I agree picking RH to do this isn't very smart. But I can hold both ideas in my head ("RH, don't do that", "You, don't pick RH")

But apparently Interactive Brokers is now doing the same. Much stronger argument to be made there. They're a pay service, with supposedly big-boy ideas about their clients, right?

EDIT: Also, note that Robinhood's decision isn't just affecting their own clients. They're screwing the wider market by restricting the pool of buyers. People who have no relationship with RH are now seeing their holdings lose value because fewer bids are making it to the books. I'm a TDA client. I didn't agree to Robinhood's TOS.
Are there still people holding or opening active short positions in GME? I'm wondering how many people will be left holding the (overpriced) bag.
maybe, were crypto exchanges forced to stop trades before ?
Gotta love those stimulus checks.
Probably not any, but my understanding is that the answer to that is mostly yes because much of the incentive for these entities to self-regulate comes from the threat of worse-for-them regulations from SEC if they fail to do so in a way that SEC feels good about, and they spend a fair bit of energy communicating back and forth what those ways are, even if it's not made explicit on paper.
IANAL, but common misconception is that a constitution regulates the rights between individuals/citizens of that state. But this is wrong, the constitution regulates the rights of an individual against the state/government. That is, you have the freedom of speech against any government entities and cannot be prosecuted for exercising it. But if you come to my bar/house whatever and I don't like your opinion, I can show you the door and you can't quote the constitution and refuse to leave because you are exercising your rights.
I like the fact that it's on the side, with widescreen monitors I prefer to sacrifice 30px of lateral space. They also integrate the most common instant messengers in there, which means less open tabs. Since last release, Spotify is docked too.
I beg to differ, tabs itself is information. Even though it's just "ephemeral", it's something ripe for any additional management tools. With all the tab chaos and context switching needs, this will be really helpful.
Does this not serve the purpose?

Repo -> Settings -> Moderation Settings -> Limit to repository collaborators
Oh no, it's offensive. Get a grip
+1 That is so much clearer and immediately acceptable.
Be worthy of trust instead of trying to find some psychological hack to trick the public into trusting the untrustworthy.
Judging by one guy who left (or was fired, I don't know) while I was there, and several more from other departments then I think you are spot on -- they did seem to cast a wide net and just let some of the fish fall through. Guess it was easier that way?

I was painfully aware that I had to put in 12+ hour working days until I show a productive output, yep. But sadly the stars aligned against me: during the same period my wife had severe depressive episodes I had to help her through, my mother almost died and me and my wife took turns "patrolling" the hospital where she was laying for days, had a huge fall out with my brother during the same time, and I finally cracked under financial and emotional pressure (not going to bore you with my life story but let's just say that the last several drops made the cup overflow). On top of that I was asked to comply with weird culture and practices that put extra pressure on me.

So I wasn't able to do what I was very keenly aware that I should do to keep the job. I am still a bit sad about it because I know for a fact that the whole thing actually started taking shape and I found my motivation and energy and desire to work on the problems in detail and with good craftsmanship... but it was too late at that time, apparently.
An ostrich and a woodpecker are similar in a lot of ways, both birds descending from a common ancestor. But I don't think you'd confuse them.
You are right that a big part of retail will be left with enormous losses.
But that doesn't in any way excuses brokers who manipulate price letting only SELL orders in
Closing the personal value gap: negotiating an offer
> Ultimately, a few medium-sized hedge funds were caught doing something stupid

Shorting a company that sells a physical product in malls during a pandemic is stupid? It seems their intuition is correct but there was a black swan event.
The entire states of Colorado and Utah ban rainwater collection.